Alchemy and academe
Subtitle: a collection of original stories concerning themselves with transmutations, mental and elemental, alchemical and academic
By: selected by Anne McCaffrey
Series: A Del Rey book
Publisher: Ballatine Books
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780345286437
Notes: Short stories and poems.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Anne McCaffrey.; title: The dance of the solids / John Updike.; title: A mess of porridge / Sonya Dorman.; title: The Institute / Carol Emshwiller.; title: Condillac's Statue, or, Wrens in his head / R.A. Lafferty.; title: The sorcerers / L. Sprague De Camp.; title: The weed of time / Norman Spinrad.; title: Night and the loves of Joe Dicostanzo / Samuel R. Delany.; title: Come up and see me / Daphne Castell.; title: Shut the last door / Joe Hensley.; title: Big Sam / Avram Davidson.; title: More light / James Blish.; title: The man who could not see devils / Joanna Russ.; title: The key to out / Betsy Curtis.; title: Ringing the changes / Robert Silverberg.; title: In a quart of water / David Telfair.; title: Morning-glory / Gene Wolfe.; title: Ascension, a workday arabesque / Virginia Kidd.; title: The devil you don't / Keith Laumer.; title: The triumphant head / Josephine Saxton.; title: Mainchance / Peter Tate.